euphoria, n. elation, joy, jubilance, jubilation, exaltation; transport, rapture, bliss, ecstasy; elevation, cloud nine, seventh heaven, nirvana; high, Sl. trip,
euphuism, n. (of writing style) 1. affectation, mannerism, Gongorism; fastidiousness, finicalness, delicacy.
2. high-flown language, inflation, bombast, orotundity, fustian, rant, turgidity; grandiloquence, magniloquence; floridness, floweriness, ornateness, sesqui-pedalism; periphrasis, circumlocution,
euthanasia, n. mercy killing, putting [s.o.] out of misery; painless death, easy death,
evacuant, adj. 1. cleansing, emptying, evacuating; eliminant, ejective, evacuative.
2. cathartic, purgative, abstergent; diuretic; emetic. -n. 3. purgative, cathartic, laxative, Trademark. Ex-lax, eliminant; emetic, nauseant; diuretic,
evacuate, v. 1. empty, make empty, remove; drain, exhaust, deplete, deprive.
2. vacate, abandon, desert, relinquish, forsake, leave empty, withdraw from, retire from, go away.
3. Physiol, eliminate, defecate, void; expel, discharge, eject, emit; throw out, clean out.
evacuation, n. 1. discharge, ejection, expulsion, elimination; purgation, catharsis; emptying, depleting, exhausting, draining off.
2. departure, retreat, flight, exodus, pulling out, withdrawal, abandonment; clearance, removal; retirement, pulling back.
3. defecation, excretion, voidance, urination; bowel movement, stool, feces, excrement, egesta, Med., Physiol, dejection.
evade, v. 1. avoid, dodge, whiffle, sidestep, elude, weasel out, give [s.o.] the slip; avert, parry, escape, Inf. shake off, get rid of, Sl. beat the rap; sneak off, sneak out the back way, make oneself scarce, take off, scram; shun, stay away from, stay clear of, keep clear of, go wide of, keep one's distance, Inf. give the go-by; stay out, play truant, shuffle off to buffalo, malinger, call in sick; shirk, funk, Sl. goldbrick; ignore, close one's eyes to, look the other way; neglect, skip, omit.
2. prevaricate, quibble, equivocate, Sl. waffle, fudge; hedge, shuffle, shift, fence, skirt, beat around the bush, hem and haw; qualify, cop out; give [s.o.] the runaround, talk one's way out of, do an end run, maneuver, baffle; doubletalk, Inf. talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, backtrack, back-pedal, sidetrack; tergiversate, vacillate, shilly-shally, straddle the fence.